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SarahLiz - Health Activist

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WEGO Health is continually looking for great health activists to invite to our community. If you know of a great health blogger, active health forum member, or someone you'd like us to reach out to, please let me know!

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Women's Health Report: let's talk about sex (baby)

Posted on November 21, 2009 at 8:00am —

Women's Health Report: let's talk inequalities

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 10:00pm —

Restricting embryo implantation - what do you think?

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Eating, drinking and overthinking - the connection of women's health coping methods

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 5:30am — 3 Comments

WEGO Health wonders: are birth control pills changing society?

Posted on November 18, 2009 at 8:30am —

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A blog post by Sarah was featured

Women's Health Report: let's talk inequalities

As I have been reading the WHO’s first ever Women’s Health report, I have been surprised by the lack of surprise that I am actually experiencing. Reading through the five main points in the executive summary, while I am angered by the data and the...

on Tuesday

Sarah replied to Sarah's discussion 'Medications for Infertility; educate yourself' in the group Infertility

Cathy, thanks for the additional side-effect. I don't know why I hadn't seen that anywhere! I'm going to have to be sure to edit the post and include in in the list!

on Monday

Finally_a_Mom replied to Sarah's discussion 'Medications for Infertility; educate yourself' in the group Infertility

I think one of the number one side effects is weight gain and that is not on the list above. But, I do agree with the majority of the side effects you listed based on years of personal experience. Cathy

on Sunday

Finally_a_Mom replied to Sarah's discussion 'My friend is infertile, what can I do?' in the group Infertility

Hi Sarah, your friend is going thru an internal struggle of feeling different than other women because her body cannot conceive. Some woman can talk about it easily and others isolate themselves. It may be exspecially hard for her to be around pre...

on Sunday

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on Saturday

amanda commented on Sarah's blog post 'Eating, drinking and overthinking - the connection of women's health coping methods'

Sarah this is really interesting. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. I wish the three points of the triangle were defined more specifically, but perhaps this will happen as studies continue. I tend to think that depression is the underlying cause a...

November 20

Ellen S commented on Sarah's blog post 'Restricting embryo implantation - what do you think?'

Sarah, I'm not a fertility Health Activist, so I hope it's okay that I take a moment to voice my humble opinion not so much from a human fertility activist standpoint, but from the standpoint of a Health Activist interested in the best overall hea...

November 20

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Restricting embryo implantation - what do you think?

With the recent expulsion of Dr. Michael Kamrava from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area (RSC) has embraced the revised embryo implantation guidelines. Due to the national ...

November 20

Profile Information

In the online health communities I participate in, I'm:

a Broadcaster (Getting the word out)

The online health resource I contribute to most frequently is:

http://www.wegohealth.com

This site is:

a community I manage/moderate, a community I contribute to

I’m also on:

http://twitter.com/WEGOSarah

It's:

my twitter

More about me (my health interests and reasons for joining WEGO Health)

I'm Sarah, a late 20-something woman learning to make the best cup of coffee (mmmm, tasty caffeinated antioxidants!). I am a nanny by day and a superhero by night. Okay, well, not really, I mostly do health research, email Marie and listen to the TV. I live with a arthritis-like condition called ankylosing spondylitis and love hot bubble baths. I am a Twitter addict as well as a active blogger. My toes are always cold and I don't really mind it.

I have a BA in German (from Oregon State University) and in Community Health Education (from Portland State University). My ultimate goal would be to educate the health educators but in the meantime I do a lot of reading on women's health, HIV/AIDS and childhood poverty. I am passionate about working towards improved health conditions for women and children of both the United States and globally.

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At 3:16pm on November 3, 2009, Lee Edwards said…: Hi Sarah,

I appreciate the warm and friendly e-mail. We health activists have to stick together. :) If I could find a full-time job as a health activist I would be so happy.

I am the Founder of the Women's Health imperative in Vernon Hills, IL. Our group is about the importance of women taking care of their health.

It's imperative that women learn about wellness, disease prevention and become their own health advocate.

We will meet quarterly to learn about various health care topics and disease prevention. I am in the process of developing outings to
health food stores, organic food stores, etc.

Also, I am working on a health advocacy blog. How, I got started was when I was diagnosed with Uveitis and had a difficult time finding specialists educated about this eye disorder and how to properly treat it. I have now come full circle and am healed but it was an ordeal.

I really consider myself a health evangelist. That's the best description I can come up with because that's what I do!

Take a look at my site and tell me what you think:
http://www.meetup.com/Women-s-Health-Imperative/

The link for teen parents is as follows: http://www.meetup.com/Teen-Parents-Too-Soon/
I am trying to get this off the ground.

Also, the quiz was good.

Warm regards,

Necie Edwards

At 1:38pm on September 23, 2009, Brooklynn said…: Hey Lady!

I am good. I have actually been fairly migraine free...whoohooo! I am really thinking one of the main culprits was my birth control pill. My hormones are finally getting back to normal.

How are you doing?

At 11:27am on September 15, 2009, Jill Knapp said…: Thank you for your sweet comment!

At 8:59am on August 31, 2009, Cheryl Sunshine Benson said…: i did the quiz ages ago, it said librian, sp, tying hard, i felt i was that and something else in it, i can't remember which

At 11:35pm on August 27, 2009, Veromay said…: Thanks for your warm welcome. I will check out the fibro/chronic pain section.

At 5:40pm on August 9, 2009, Brooklynn said…: I received the same request from Dr. Rutledge! Unfortunately I have not found the website to be particularly easy to navigate through.

At 8:49am on July 10, 2009, Lorraine Blum said…: Love reading your post would love to have you as a friend. Lorraine

At 9:01am on July 6, 2009, Lorraine Blum said…: Thank you for your welcome I would be delighted to share my health tidbits with others. I also have Health Domain Names that some of you may be interested in such as justheal.me, Psychotherapist4.me, and more. If so let me know. I love the field of Healing. Anything I can do further let me know I will look into the communities and forums you have here, thank you again for inviting me. Lorraine Blum

At 4:29pm on June 27, 2009, sergio allasia said…: hi sarah would u like be my friend?

At 12:53pm on June 15, 2009, Breathinstephen said…: Thanks for the kind words. On April 20th, I achieved my goal and became the first person with documented severe lung disease to ever finish the Boston marathon.

Good luck at the Portland marathon, which my the way is one of my favorites in the whole world. ( Ive done it twice)